Slides: tinyurl.com/kempnola
Avatars:
Remove Attachments, Take a Seat
The insidious way our teacher/student power
dynamic is being re-imposed in 3D and the
missed opportunity to find our inner Dewey
Jeremy Kemp, M.S.J., M.Ed. with San Jose State University’s SLIS
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Jeremy Kemp - Who am I? …
Full-time lecturer at SJSU SLIS
Started teaching online in 1999
Second Life wiki for educators
www.simteach.com
sloodle.org mashup (SL <-> Moodle, Angel LMS)
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Do we know how to…
“Birth” a student through launching their avatar
Teach students to create their own content?
Manage strangers for security, griefing, litter patrol?
Set estate and land permissions for access and building?
Give students controls: peer teaching, present, space design?
Create asynchronous learning gadgets and games?
Promote and manage synchronous events?
Deliver content WITHOUT lecturing with slides?
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POLL 2 – Describe your Second Life effort?
Not interested
Thinking or grouping together
Actively planning an SL presence
Research within SL
Developing tools and simulations within SL
Staging an exhibition
Department or center presence
Using SL to support a course or module
Supporting developments across several departments
Building a campus-wide presence
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John Dewey -
Democracy and Education
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/852/852-h/852-h.htm
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Paulo Freire -
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
http://preview.tinyurl.com/friere
“Banking” concept of education
Transmission Model
Programmed Instruction
Classroom management
Problem-posing and dialog
Student as teacher – enabling peasant scholars
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Seymour Papert -
Situating Constructionism
http://www.papert.org/articles
/SituatingConstructionism.html
Logo language
Lego Mindstorm
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Will Wright -
Simulations for Learning
“Montessori taught me the joy of discovery. It showed
you can become interested in pretty complex
theories, like Pythagorean theory, say, by playing
with blocks. It’s all about learning on your terms,
rather than a teacher explaining stuff to you.
SimCity comes right out of Montessori.”
- http://tinyurl.com/willwrightny
Video talk at TED: http://tinyurl.com/willwrightted
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Robin Harper -
LL Community VP (previously Maxis Marketing)
“The word 'users' doesn't do a very good job of
describing the two-way nature of Second Life,
where the people involved are providing content
and contributing to the experience.”
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Origin_of_the_term
_%27Resident%27
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Concreteness Fading
Abstract Concrete
Representation Representation
Concrete Abstract
Representation Representation
Goldstone. (2005). The transfer of scientific principles using concrete
and idealized simulations. The Journal of the Learning Sciences
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Concreteness
http://slurl.com/secondlife/SJSU%20SLIS/200/190
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Abstraction
http://slurl.com/secondlife/SJSU%20SLIS/85/230
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We’re born as monkeys
Like: Doors, stairs, roof
Have: Limited control
Need: A roof over head
Build for: Verisimilitude
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We grow into birds
Like: Stoops, atriums
Have: Wings and body
comfort
Need: Airport signals,
landing markers
Build: Phantom barriers
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Some settle into spirits
Dislike: imposed UI
Use Unconstrained Camera
controls
Need Unfettered views
Build: For out-of-body
experience
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Island “Home pages” Panoramas
NMC Orientation
Svarga
Particle Lab
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Libr 287: Virtual Worlds
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Libr 287: Quests
Asynchronous learning
Biweekly deadline
Students welcome to create their own
Some build on each other
Student upload A LOT of pictures
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Game-based learning
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Libr 287: vPortfolio
Summative assessment
Place-based learning
Constuctionist
Scaffold for Eusociality
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Libr 287: vPortfolio
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Libr 287: vPortfolio
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Libr 287: vPortfolio
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Slides: tinyurl.com/kempjb
Avatars:
Remove Attachments, Take a Seat
The insidious way our teacher/student power
dynamic is being re-imposed in 3D and the
missed opportunity to find our inner Dewey
Jeremy Kemp, M.S.J., M.Ed. with San Jose State University’s SLIS
UNO Virtual

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